Is progress in eliminating vitamin A deficiency adequate to meet the MDG targets for malnutrition – of halving the prevalences between 1990 and 2015? In east Asia (China and Mongolia), and much of south and central America and the Caribbean, the rates of reduction of vitamin A deficiency (low serum retinol) are not far off those needed to halve the prevalence from 1990 to 2015. But in most of Africa (except north Africa) and south central Asia progress is lagging far behind that needed.
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